Linwood
Worth seeing in and around Linwood
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Linwood
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 5 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 39 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 71 km
- Stations
- Milliken Park railway station, 3.7 km · Paisley St James railway station, 3.2 km · Johnstone railway station, 1.7 km · Paisley West railway station, 3.4 km · Elderslie railway station, 1.6 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Linwood71 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £7–10
- Belfast → Linwood166 km · quickest by road, 14h 16m · £75–95
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Linwood206 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · £23–31
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Linwood
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Linwood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere's a range of long-stay parks off-site, with transfer minibuses.
- Get in(The airport is in "Local" zone, so the "City" zone fare isn't enough.) McGill's Bus 757 trundles every 30 min to Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, which has very frequent trains to Glasgow Central, and outbound to Gourock (for Dunoon ferry), Wemyss Bay (for Bute ferry), Ardrossan (for Arran ferry) and Ayr.
- Get inThe fare is the same by any route: in 2024 a day trip is £15 and an open return is £20.
- Get inFor a day trip, park up at one of the outlying railway stations, if you can find a space among all the commuter vehicles.
- Get inThe crossing takes 2 hr 30 min, with almost a dozen car ferries a day.
From Wikivoyage: Glasgow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Linwood
Linwood is 15 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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